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West Stowell, near Huish, Wiltshire. Reported 20th July. Image: Nick Nicholson and the Crop Circle Connector © 2003 The number-play utilised in the geome- try of some formations also expanded. For the first time, at West Stowell, Wiltshire, on 20th July, a complex pattern of radiating diamonds used 13-fold geometry as its main feature. Though the number 13 had een present implicitly in at least one for- mation before this, it had never been used overtly as part of the physical pattern. Researcher Michael Glickman has long predicted the clear usage of the number 3—the number of transformation—in the fields, and he believes it marks an impor- tant step in the continuing mathematical lesson the crop circles are giving us. By the middle of August, there were igh expectations that something of great importance would appear around the anniversary of the "face and message" formation of 2001 and the "alien and disc" of 2002, both of which appeared around 14th August and had encoded pictorial and binary information in a unique and highly controversial way. Some researchers even staked out the fields to await the arrival of the next instalment—but it didn't come, and hadn't arrived at the time of writing. With most fields cut down by the middle of August, it was left to the very large rpenhoe, near Barton Le Clay, Bedfordshire. Reported 29th June. Image: Russell Stannard © 2003 NEXUS + 57 OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2003 www.nexusmagazine.com